Quotes About Sensitivity

But he'd "got a leg," as they say in horse speak. Before he'd come to Soysambu, he'd been overtrained, and his tendons had become sensitive, with a tendency to swell.

What will you do now?" "Live until it gives me away, of course. And drink only the best champagne. There's not time for anything else." His face was delicate and sensitive-looking, like a well-bred cat's. He also had rich brown eyes that seemed to want to laugh at the idea of sadness or self-pity.

There is no cure for a bleeding heart.

Nadia listened in perfect, ratlike silence.

The sponge of my heart had been filled up sometime last evening and had begun to drip.

The brutality of racism is something beyond what a minimum of human sensitivity can encounter without trembling, and saying, "Horrible!

If there's even one person who might be hurt by a decision, you should never make it.

The simple truth is that moving into the Intuition Age is all about what you can know and do with energy and how you can develop effective, expanded sensitivity.

When navigating via sensitivity and vibration, choose people and opportunities that feel deeply comfortable and that resonate harmoniously with your home frequency. You can distinguish people, opportunities, places, and answers that make beautiful music with you... When you encounter people, ideas, and opportunities that are dissonant with your home frequency, don't get involved—or if you must, let it be peripherally.

Every human being on earth. It's difficult to understand. That people can hurt each other. When they have been so small and helpless. Every single rapist and football bully and suicide bomber and pedophile has been so small and depended. Of milk and love.

When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman.

It is now 55 years since my last book report, which is a long time to live with a guilty conscience. So here it is: In the spring of 1956 I wrote a highly favorable review of the Bible without reading a word of it, and it was the last A I ever got in English. Why it has taken so long to come clean I'm not sure, except I have always been extremely sensitive about my academic reputation.

intercession is impossible until we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts as well.

Here's the question: Will we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts too? It'll mean more tears, more listening. It may even be the reason why so many of us struggle with our own personal burdens and heartaches - God is allowing us to feel the pain, to be weak and broken so that our prayers have power.

steam-rolling over a younger, weaker child or pet.

Your composure will greatly reduce the likelihood of frightening or confusing your child further. Remember, children are very sensitive to the emotional states of adults, particularly their parents.

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

The quality of the environments that are thought to be so important to development, including stress, life events, and trauma (and probably also maternal attunement and sensitivity), can all be inherited. It is likely that personality characteristics that we had often thought of as—and what the child might experience as—the consequence of the parents' behavior toward the child are in fact genetic predispositions.

Teaching the police to be more sensitive to the most exploited and oppressed is only a strategy designed to prevent police heavy-handedness from unintentionally sparking rebellions as they trample people in the performance of their duties.

Deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive. But maybe I'm both weak and brutal.

When people talk about how fast children forget, how fast they forgive, how sensitive they are, I let it go in one ear and out the other. Children can remember and forget and totally freeze to death the people they don't like.

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

When there is a burn on someoneís skin and the raw area of the burn becomes reddish-white or white,

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.